ADA Web Accessibility Guidelines

Avoid litigation and make your website accessible and enjoyable for all web users.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) have been widely recognized and accepted as best meeting the requirements outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act. The WCAG Level 2.2 (AA) recommendations are now the standards that website owners should follow. These guidelines break down into four different areas of website accessibility:

1. Perceivable – information and user interface components.
2. Operable – navigation and user interface components.
3. Understandable – Information and user interface operation.
4. Robust – content that can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.

Your site should be audited on a regular basis either by an experienced web development agency or a knowledgeable internal site developer.

Evaluating Web Accessibility isn’t Easy:

• Many of the WCAG guidelines need to be verified manually.
• For example: A computer can’t determine if a text description adequately describes an image.
• The guidelines and proper ways to implement them can be difficult to understand.

LKCS offers a subscription-based web governance tool that provides additional benefits:

• Scans entire site and identifies all potential WCAG issues.
• Makes it easier to review and understand with real-world examples of what is acceptable and what isn’t.
• Keeps track of corrected and outstanding issues.
• Provides quarterly, semi-annual, or on-demand scans and reports.
• Provides tools to improve Search Engine Optimization, correct misspellings, monitor site uptime, and more.
• Our popular Full-Service Option INCLUDES all site remediation. Our web developers will IDENTIFY AND CORRECT all web accessibility issues on your website for a fixed monthly cost.